This Week's Tickets: A Place to Bury Strangers, Hardwell, and More
Big names on stages and in the club as we round out the year. Apocalyptic post punk on the smaller stage at Yuyintang and at the other end of the spectrum, EDM DJs galore. There's a few Christmas orc...
Big names on stages and in the club as we round out the year. Apocalyptic post punk on the smaller stage at Yuyintang and at the other end of the spectrum, EDM DJs galore. There's a few Christmas orchestral / vocal performances as well for the week. So it goes, Shanghai. Click through to getcher tickets.
Setting tinnitus-inducing noise-pop against a tension-wracked Joy Division-meets-Slowdive backdrop, this Brooklyn trio drenches lovesick indiepop in sheets of deafening static and distortion. Plenty of bands may have tapped the trebly, ecstatic side of shoegaze in recent years, but none have imbued it with this band’s frustrated aggression or lacerating, industrial feedback. New Noise hosts in this seminal act to Yuyintang. Bring earplugs.
Hardwell, Dutch electro house DJ, record producer and remixer — and world’s Number 1 DJ in DJ Mag 2013 and 2014 (currently number 4) returns to MYST for another crazy night in the megaclub. A fixture at Ultra Music Festival, Sunburn and Tomorrowland, the man needs no introduction. Expect a huge, game crowd up in force for this EDM superstar.
Strauss’ peerless opera Der Rosenkavalier, set in Vienna, premiered in 1911 and a silent film version followed in 1926. At the London premiere, at the Tivoli Theatre on the Strand, Strauss himself conducted his arrangement for chamber orchestra of a suite to accompany the film. In this amazing performance, a group of London musicians accompany a screening of the silent film with their own experimentalist renditions of these classic Chamber pieces. The OAE has mesmerized the music world with residencies at the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne.
Beijing’s Bauhaus-inflected post punk icons return from Europe, fresh on the heels of being selected by Depeche Mode to open up for them on tour. They’re in town behind their new album, produced by Hector Castillo (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bjork, Phillip Glass). Expect frenetic, emotional post punk music that recalls the genres late 70s heyday.
The first name in Trance returns to Shanghai. Formed in 2000, they are the owners of London-based electronic dance music labels Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep, and also host a weekly radio show titled Group Therapy Radio. The trio has been consistently ranked among DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs Poll, having placed at#4 in 2008 & 2009, and most recently at #27 for 2017. Going to be a big night in the club with the duos return to the city. Trance, trance, trance.
“All we want for Christmas is you!” Snap!, Shanghai’s favorite queer events platform will unwrap the biggest gift of the season: an unforgettable holiday party at Xixi Bistro, at the heart of the festive Xintiandi. Upon arrival, a welcome prosecco will surely bubble up your holiday cheer, and once inside, you will enjoy two floors of bar and entertainment. Just after midnight, a special holiday performance guaranteed to delight — think Christmas classic with a queer twist. Bring on the holiday spirit and come celebrate with Snap!
André Tanneberger, under his stage name of ATB, is a German DJ, musician, and producer of electronic dance music. According to the official world DJ rankings governed by DJ Magazine, ATB was ranked #11 in 2009 and 2010, and #15 in 2011. In 2011, he was ranked as world number 1 according to "The DJ List". He is best known for his 1999 single "9 PM (Till I Come)" which was a number one single in the United Kingdom. He’s back in Shanghai behind his upcoming tenth studio album is set to be titled "Next" (stylized as “neXt”). Trance in the club with this international superstar DJ.
Established in 1996, Vox Clamantis is a vocal ensemble that revolves around its leader Jaan-Eik Tulve. It all started with Gregorian chant, which Tulve studied in Paris in the 1990s. Back in Estonia he formed Vox Clamantis to continue singing these old plainsongs that are the foundation of Western art music. In 2012 they participated in the Grammy-winning album “Adam’s Lament” with music by Arvo Pärt. In 2013 the album “Liszt. Via crucis” for Mirare with French pianist Jean-Claude Pennetier won a Diapason d’Or award, and Vox Clamantis’ singing is heard in Paolo Sorrentino’s film “La Grande Bellezza” (“The Great Beauty”) that won an Academy Award in 2014. The program for the Shanghai performance includes Estonian folk songs, and works from Perotin, David Lang, and more.
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